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Principle-based recommendations for big data and machine learning in food safety: the P-SAFETY model KU Leuven
Big data and Machine learning Techniques are reshaping the way in which food safety risk assessment is conducted. The ongoing ‘datafication’ of food safety risk assessment activities and the progressive deployment of probabilistic models in their practices requires a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of these advances. In particular, the low level of trust in EU food safety risk assessment framework highlighted in 2019 by an ...
Stepping Stones for a Legal Framework for Human Enhancement. A Path That Is More Important Than its Destination KU Leuven
Does it make sense to strive for an overarching legal framework for human enhancement technologies (HETs)? In this article, we argue that it does due to the number and variety of forms and applications of human enhancement which are expected to boost amongst others under the influence of AI. However, already in an early stage of our explorative argument, we will conclude that we probably will never be able to attain such a complete framework. As ...
Digital Tools and COVID-19: Shifting Public–Private Boundaries KU Leuven
In this paper, we attempt to provide starting points for a discussion on immediate and longer-term consequences of COVID-19-induced uses of digital technologies for the distinction between the public and the private spheres. We start with clarifying definitions of the public and the private spheres in relation to the concept of privacy. What is considered private is at least in part contextually determined by conventions and social, political, ...
Safety, security and ethics KU Leuven
What are safety and security? Why should we value safety and security? These questions may sound redundant at first sight. Are safety and security not to be considered as elementary conditions for aminimally functioning human being? Exactly because of this apparent self-evidence, policy and lawmakers, as well as researchers of the legal dimensions or technical or economic aspects of safety andsecurity might benefit from a more precise ...
An obligation to enhance? KU Leuven
This article discusses some rather formal characteristics of possible obligations to enhance. Obligations to enhance can exist in the absence of good moral reasons. If obligation and duty however are considered as synonyms, the enhancement involved must be morally desirable in some respect. Since enhancers and enhanced can, but need not coincide, advertency is appropriate regarding the question who exactly is addressed by an obligation or a duty ...